Invoice generation

[Marie-Claire ORDOQUY]

Hi,

I’m testing django-oscar, and I saw a billing address but no invoice.
I saw a message from last year where you explain there is no invoice generation in Oscar.

In djangopackages.com/grids/g/ecommerce/ I saw that ‘pdf invoice generation is possible but not in core’. 
Is there an existing extension to generate invoice ?

Regards,

Marie-Claire ORDOQUY


PS : sorry for the english, I’m french…

[Izidor Matušov]

Hi Marie-Claire,

On 30/01/14 09:07, Marie-Claire ORDOQUY wrote:
> I saw that ‘pdf invoice
> generation is possible but not in core’.
> Is there an existing extension to generate invoice ?

I don't know about a project using Oscar that generates PDF invoices.
However, it is easily doable:

1, Oscar already has couple views that looks like an invoice (e.g.
dashboard page for an order)

2, You can create your custom view based on that order view.

3, Use pisa to convert your HTML to PDF:
http://agiliq.com/blog/2008/10/generating-pdfs-with-django/

Alternatively, you might use another library that generates PDFs:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/outputting-pdf/

Izidor

[mcor...@gmail.com]

Thanks Izidor.
Then I'll create a custom view and use relatorio for the pdf generation.

[Sebastian Vetter]

Hi Marie-Claire,

we've actually done something similar in one of your projects before. We used pisa as
Izidor suggested and hooked it up to the OrderListView in the dashboard. I've put the
relevant sections into a gist: https://gist.github.com/elbaschid/8722203

It was a bit tricky to get the HTML formatting right so that the PDF would would overflow
correctly onto multiple pages with many lines in a single order. I've you'd be insterested in
the HTML and pisa-specific CSS for the formatting let me know and I'll see that I can extract
the useful bits from that as well.

Cheers,
Seb

[mcor...@gmail.com]

Thanks Sebastian, it is very nice.
But it is easier for me to use an OpenOffice template with relatorio to generate the pdf.

Le jeudi 30 janvier 2014 10:07:08 UTC+1, Marie-Claire ORDOQUY a écrit :

[Valery Sorokin]

Hi Sebastian,
It'd be nice to see how was solved formating problems for multipage invoices.

Cheers,
Valery

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[Jochen Wagner]

Hi,

I'm using xhtml2pdf
https://github.com/chrisglass/xhtml2pdf/blob/master/doc/usage.rst

Works great. You can define headers, footers and so on.
A pagebreak is done with a simple "<div><pdf:nextpage /></div>"

When you try the examples, omit the comments, they are causing errors.

Jochen

[Sebastian Vetter]

Hi Valery,

I've created a gist containing the base template we use for the invoice and the
derived template that just filles in the content. The formatting of the page is in the
base.html and the splitting across multiple pages in order_packing_slip.html.

It's not the most sophisticated solution but I remember we experimented with
alternatives that all turned out to be less useful.

@Jochen: the tricky bit is to work out when to actually include the line break,
especially when you have lines/line items with long names or other details that
wrap onto multiple lines in a single table cell. Then it becomes more and more
difficult to work out when to break the page or not.

I'm not saying this is the best solution, but hopefully it saves some time for anyone
having to deal with a similar situation :)

Cheers,
Seb

[Sebastian Vetter]

Argh, forgot the link:

    https://gist.github.com/elbaschid/8776935

Sorry about that,
Seb

[Jochen Wagner]

Thank you! That's really useful for future reference.
Jochen

[Asi Li]

I would like to use the source code in that gist.

can anyone confirm the code works as expected?

It would be nice to see an output example before I implement it in my project.

10x

[Asi Li]

The gist code works well.

Does anyone has a nice looking order invoice template that he can share?

Thanks!

[Asi Li]

second try...

This would be much appreciated.

[YusufSalahAdDin]

Did anyone a fix for this problem?